Marlon Jackson looked back at some of his late brother Michael's big career milestones, including the moment he introduced ...

Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.

Photos of Jesse Jackson in CT weave a tapestry of support for Jackie Robinson and Ned Lamont together with showdowns against ...

Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84. The icon of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond was remembered by ...

Jackson was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. before carving out his own place in the African-American struggle ...

When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, many businesses proudly kept in their windows signs from Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and ’88 presidential runs. He was a revered figure, someone ...

Jackson was hospitalized on Nov. 12 following a lengthy battle with the neuromuscular disease progressive supranuclear palsy, ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Bernice King shared a photo on social media of Jackson and King and wrote, "Both ancestors now..." ...

Jesse Jackson. In the late 1980s, I began to write a series of columns on how Nike’s marketing plan was to fashion a status symbol to create a feeding frenzy for poor, mostly black children to procure ...

Many people who knew and worked with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. are vowing to ‘keep hope alive’ in honor of his legacy. Jackson led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement for decades. The protege ...

Jackson shared five children with his wife, Jacqueline Lavinia Brown Jackson: sons Jesse Jackson Jr., Jonathan Jackson and Yusef DuBois Jackson, and daughters Santita Jackson and Jacqueline "Jackie" ...